Looking for "SeaDoo for Dad" - 108' Sunseeker

[C_Spray]

This boat tore through the no-wake zone on the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal around 11:00 AM on Sunday, 7/5/09, causing damage to boats, docks and people. When pursued by some of the victims, he refused to stop. The boat is registered in Georgetown, Cayman Islands. The boat had spent the night of the Fourth in Baltimore, tied up next to the National Aquarium. It's last transmitted location was in the marina by the former WTC site in New York City as of 7:00 AM Monday morning, 7/6/09.

See http://www.marinetraffic.com/AIS/datasheet.aspx?datasource=ITINERARIES&MMSI=954990382 for more information.

If someone can determine the owner of this vessel, there is a pretty long line of people waiting to speak with him.

Photos courtesy of Ratickle's link below.

 

[Ratickle]

Here's a report on Boater Ed.....:ack2:

Originally posted by alk

[br]Looks like she's flagged in the Cayman Islands. A 108' boat, that can just about hit 50mph. And was probably doing close that when she passed the basin. Insane. I've seen people oblivious to no wake zones before, but never like this.

"Arneson surface drives power the P-108 – weighing more than 80 tons – to an impressive top of 43 knots". Besides C_spray, who else's friends have a fleet that can catch this guy at WOT?

And I see they mentioned you...

 

[Ratickle]

Link to pictures and more pizzed off people.....


http://www.flickr.com/photos/75925710@N00/3691129354/

 

[Chris]

My guess is the Coast Guard could help.

How does Boatpix find everyone?

 

[C_Spray]

Coasties didn't exactly jump on the situation:

http://www.boatered.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=129087

 

[Big Time]

Coasties didn't exactly jump on the situation:

http://www.boatered.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=129087

Funny how they will stop people to bust b@lls about a safety inspection but won't go after a boat that is actually breaking the law and putting lives in danger... :ack2:

 

[lucky devil]

Have you tried:


http://www.cishipping.com/portal/page?_pageid=1307,3497383&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

 

[Magic Medicine]

Funny how they will stop people to bust b@lls about a safety inspection but won't go after a boat that is actually breaking the law and putting lives in danger... :ack2:

Pretty lame huh?

 

[Chris]

This is exactly why I carry a real flare gun. It's hard to run off when you're on fire.

 

[rainmn]

Funny how they will stop people to bust b@lls about a safety inspection but won't go after a boat that is actually breaking the law and putting lives in danger... :ack2:

Exactly what I was thinking. Should have told the CG that the Sunseeker had expired flares or was one life vest short.....maybe then they would have stopped the douchebag.

 

[JupiterSunsation]

Someone did note that it was a poorly marked no wake zone..........If the guy isn't a local he wouldn't have known it was no wake.

 

[sy goldberg]

Sunseeker with cayman islands home port

large yachts do this scam quite often to avoid sales tax.

 

[Ratickle]

This is exactly why I carry a real flare gun. It's hard to run off when you're on fire.

How accurate is that at 100 yards?


Do you practice?????

 

[Chris]

At 100 meters, I can hit a torso 9 out of 10 shots. I could probably get 3 out of 5 shots into the cockpit of a boat like that at 200 meters while moving.

It's a 37mm Smith & Wesson gas gun, but they make all sorts of projectiles for it. Parachute flares, bean bags, ball bags solid rubber slugs, etc. You can get markers (chalk) and even white phosphorous. And of course CN and CS gas. The WP would be very illegal without about 20 different pieces of paperwork. The rest are legal as it's Fed registered as an AOW.

 

[GENERAL LEE]

Well, it's a bad ass boat.....? :gnorsi:


and yes, damn near EVERY major yacht on the East coast is registered in the Islands. Tax dodging 101! :USA:

 

[Ratickle]

At 100 meters, I can hit a torso 9 out of 10 shots. I could probably get 3 out of 5 shots into the cockpit of a boat like that at 200 meters while moving.

It's a 37mm Smith & Wesson gas gun, but they make all sorts of projectiles for it. Parachute flares, bean bags, ball bags solid rubber slugs, etc. You can get markers (chalk) and even white phosphorous. And of course CN and CS gas. The WP would be very illegal without about 20 different pieces of paperwork. The rest are legal as it's Fed registered as an AOW.

Is it legal in Canada if loaded with flares?????

 

[Ratickle]

One thing on the story that makes no sense. The Coast Guard was waiting for him, tried to stop him, and he wouldn't stop??????


I've never seen that end with the guy just driving away.....

 

[Chris]

Is it legal in Canada if loaded with flares?????

Dunno. Possibly. Canada has some unusual firearms laws. We have bans on imported weapons that they don't. They don't ban short-length rifles like we do, but are tough on handguns. You can't have a pistol, but you can have a 7.62 caliber assault rifle cut down to about 14" total length. Who said firearms laws needed to make sense.

The 37mm is not rifled, unlike its cousin the 40mm M203. That makes it a non-firearm. Possession of any ammunition that could be considered a projectile would make it an AOW (Any Other Weapon) and that requires registration. Obviously if you get hit in the chest with a parachute flare or a CN canister, that's REALLY bad, but the argument is that they're primarily of a different purpose. It's tough to make that argument about bean bags.

 

[C_Spray]

At any rate, emails have been sent to the Bombardier Recreational Products communications department in Canada about this. If he is a corporate officer, they'll be facing an embarassing situation. If he's not, he'll have to explain their logo on his transom. From the North Cove Marina web cam in NYC, it looks as if he might be there now...

 

[Joe549]

Dunno. Possibly. Canada has some unusual firearms laws. We have bans on imported weapons that they don't. They don't ban short-length rifles like we do, but are tough on handguns. You can't have a pistol, but you can have a 7.62 caliber assault rifle cut down to about 14" total length. Who said firearms laws needed to make sense.

The 37mm is not rifled, unlike its cousin the 40mm M203. That makes it a non-firearm. Possession of any ammunition that could be considered a projectile would make it an AOW (Any Other Weapon) and that requires registration. Obviously if you get hit in the chest with a parachute flare or a CN canister, that's REALLY bad, but the argument is that they're primarily of a different purpose. It's tough to make that argument about bean bags.

Canada actually has some very strict, and stupid, firearms laws. We can own handguns but cannot obtain authorization to carry concealed, and there are certain conditions that must be met in order to own one such as being a memeber of a registered shooting/gun club. Rifle/shotgun barrel lengths are limited to no less than 105mm(?), Assault rifles are clssified as prohibited firearms and cannot be owned.

"prohibited firearm" means

(a) a handgun that

(i) has a barrel equal to or less than 105 mm in length, or

(ii) is designed or adapted to discharge a 25 or 32 calibre cartridge,

but does not include any such handgun that is prescribed, where the handgun is for use in international sporting competitions governed by the rules of the International Shooting Union,


(b) a firearm that is adapted from a rifle or shotgun, whether by sawing, cutting or any other alteration, and that, as so adapted,

(i) is less than 660 mm in length, or

(ii) is 660 mm or greater in length and has a barrel less than 457 mm in length,

(c) an automatic firearm, whether or not it has been altered to discharge only one projectile with one pressure of the trigger, or

(d) any firearm that is prescribed to be a prohibited firearm;


Canada has some of the dumbest firearms laws in the world and the only people that they affect are the law abidding gun owners.....